"There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.  They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.” - p. 100

"Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.” - p. 76

"We dream of Christ’s love for His bride reading like Romeo and Juliet; two equals enflamed in liberal love.  I think it is more like Lucentio’s pursuit of Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew. That is, the groom endearing the belligerent bride with kindness, patience, and love. - p. 86

"Your problem is not that God is not fulfilling, your problem is that you are spoiled.” - p. 92

"Satan, who I believe exists as much as I believe Jesus exists, wants us to believe meaningless things for meaningless reasons.” - p. 106

"The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something.  And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn’t like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them.” p. 107

"The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this:  Life is a story about me.” - p. 182.

"Sometimes I am glad I don’t have very much money.  I think money might own me if I had too much of it.  I think I would buy things and not be satisfied with the things I have so I would have to buy more.” - p. 193

"Wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow.  I don’t think there is any better worship than wonder.” - p. 206

"There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself.  But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me.” - p. 237